BLUE DEAL Labs - Valencia Business Forum

1st Day | Blue Energy Project for Europe. Status of the Blue Energy Development in the Mediterranean Sea

23 Mar 22 | 09:00 - 17:15 CET

9:00-9:15 Covid rapid test and registration 1

9:15.9:30 Covid rapid test and registration 2

9:30-10:30 Opening session. Institutional Welcome

Ramón Ferrandis, CEEI VALENCIA

Paula Tuzón, Secretaria Autonòmica de Transcició Ecològica i Emergència Climàtica. Valencian Regional Government.

Representative of the Blue Growth Interreg MED horizontal project

Caterina Praticò, Project Manager of Blue Growth Community

Simone Bastianoni, University of Siena


10:30-10:50 BLUE DEAL Project. Methodologies for SMEs and Transfer Protocol.

Katerina Sfakianaki, CRES


10:50-11:10 European policies related to marine renewable energy and development in the Mediterranean Sea.

Xavier Guillou, European Commission.

Policy officer: marine renewable energy


11:10-11:30 Blue Energy in Spain

The Spanish Government’s Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE). Juan Ramón Ayuso. Head of Wind Energy Department


11:30-12:00 Networking coffee


 12:00-14.00 Good practices. From Valencia to the rest of the MED

Moderator: Josefina López Galdeano. Founder and CEO, U-SPACE.

Raul Cascajo, Head of Environmental Policies at Valencia Port.

Valencia Port emission reduction strategy. Implementation.

Thalassotherapy center in Croatia.

Boris Cosic, Director of Centre for Technology Transfer

Julia Fernandez ChozasPh.D., M.Sc. Electrical Engineering. Consultant Engineer and Lecturer

Tomás Romagosa Asociación Empresarial Eólica .Good practices in the design of Offshore Wind Farms.

Giuseppe Giorgi. Marine Offshore Renewable Energy Lab. Politecnico di Torino.Fostering Participated Processes for Effective Clean Energy Transition Agenda: the case of small EU Islands

Sandro Calmanti. Regione Lazio


14:00-15:00 LUNCH BREAK


15:00-17.15 How to finance Blue Energies in the Mediterranean Sea.

Moderator: Louisa Shakou, Project partner

EU funding programmes. Juan Viesca - European funds director - FINNOVA (EU)

Ignacio Chanzá, Innovation Lead- Southern and Central Eastern Europe at Climate-KIC

Seastainable Ventures Ignasi Ferrer. CEO

BLUEfasma project Yorgos Stephanades, Project Coordinator

Blue Crowdfunding Darko Ferčej, Project Coordinator

EEN, Support for SMEs for technological and commercial cooperation projects. José Vilar. Coordinator of EEN-Enterprise Europe Network Seimed.

Angel Fernandez Rodriguez. Navantia Green Energies

Navantia. Ideal supplier for the Mediterranean Sea.

Michael O'Connor, CEO of CorkBIC